Dots over a single letter can change the tense or person of a verb, notes Keith Small, an American participant in the SOAS event.
His 'Invocation' hovered around a single letter of the alphabet.
Celera and the HGP tried to do something radical, to sequence all of the DNA in which genes are coded from end to end without omitting a single letter.
If the reform passes, it could head off next year's planned 5.4% postal rate increase the one that will push the cost of mailing a single letter to 39 cents from 37 cents.
That means, Grossman says, that if a user can be tricked into typing just a single letter and tab, all of his or her details can be stolen by a hidden form on the site.
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Events, which will run through 1 July, include a Letter Party on 30 June, where attendees wear a T-shirt with a single letter on it and combine to form words with fellow dancers, and an edible poetry workshop where verses are written in chocolate and then eaten.
Thanks to the work of the appropriately named (and blue-eyed) Danish geneticist Hans Eiberg and his colleagues, we now know that the chief mutation that causes blue eyes is a single letter change, from A to G, at the 26, 039, 213rd position on chromosome 15, within a gene called HERC2.
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By skipping a single missing letter, the drug makes a shorter but effective version of dystrophin.
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The naming structure will organize and group all devices into five classes, identified by a single alphabetical letter.
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More than half a million single letter variations in the DNA code were analysed in men in the UK and Australia.
However, a small percentage of people are born with a single-letter change in their DNA for this enzyme that causes the codeine-to-morphine reaction go faster.
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Are we really that apoplectic over a single three letter word?
The simple way to search for such genes would be to gather thousands of patients with disease and scan through all ten million places where humans differ by a single DNA letter, comparing the results to thousands of healthy control patients.
It focused narrowly on areas in and around active genes, ignoring the 98.5% of genomic material known as "junk DNA." This process pinpointed 25, 000 genetic landmarks called SNPS (single nucleotide polymorphisms, or "snips"), places where a single dna letter varies from one person to the next.
Each submission to the Journal was accompanied by a single-spaced letter of two or three pages, bringing me up to date on his travels, his retreat in the Rocky Mountains, his thoughts on events outside the realm of his columns.
Instead of tapping out letters or writing a word on screen, you trace each letter in a single, fluid stroke.
In Finnish, exceptionally, each letter makes a single logical sound and there are no irregular words.
As you can tell from its alphanumeric moniker, that single letter is a nod towards the handset's physical leanings.
My own letter was written on a single side of paper taken from a school exercise book.
In early January 2006, DP World sent a dense three-page, single-spaced letter to the Department of Homeland Security promising to abide by all the U.S. government's port-security programs already in place.
The FDA also gave Byetta an "approvable letter" for its use as a single-agent therapy.
He wrote a letter to members of the Senate that is the single most impressive piece of official correspondence I have read in 35 years of involvement in national security policy-making.
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But a group of Tory MPs - including several former cabinet ministers - have circulated a letter warning the prime minister that talk of renegotiation and referendums was putting the single market at risk.
Syntellia's Fleksy uses a predictive text technology that makes accurate typing easy on touchscreens, even when you miss every single letter.
Tellingly, Mr Monti has signed up to a letter sponsored by Britain, the Netherlands and other liberal countries urging stronger enforcement of single-market rules, including the naming and shaming of countries that fail to abide by commitments to open up energy and services.
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